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Book Review of Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography

Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography
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Informative and even-handed biography of photographer Margaret Bourke-White, whose career blossomed as the photomagazine genre came into its own.

By all accounts, Bourke-White was an arrogant, demanding, manipulative, force of nature who nevertheless gifted the world with hundreds of dramatic, memorable, and moving photographs. The biography also traces her developing social conscience and tracks her defiant battle against the Parkinson's Disease that finally took her life.

Lots of photo inserts in the book, but many readers will probably be motivated to look for more.